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Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen criticises nations for stipulating conditions for vaccines supplies to other countries and for hoarding COVID-19 vaccines.
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The Banskhali S. Alam power project under construction in Chattogram under fire after the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) overlooks several red flags.
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At least 11 were arrested under suspicions of being members of a Bangladeshi trafficking gang that lured girls and women into neighbouring India’s sex trade using TikTok, Dhaka police said.
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On 22 May, the Ministry of Tourism announced a 30 percent reduction in acquisition costs for 16 islands tendered on 9 April, citing the ‘current investment climate’ posing challenges to...
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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) came into existence 36 years ago in 1985. The South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement (SAPTA) had come into existence in 1993 and...
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The Maldives had a free-floating exchange rate between 1987 and 1994, and the exchange rate of US dollars (USD) in terms of Rufiyaa (MVR) ranged between MVR8.50 and 11.50. In...
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President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, in his presidential address on 7 February 2019, stated that his Administration aims to raise the foreign currency reserves to USD1 billion by the end of...
